Improvement in fluting-irons



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L. 'E'. DEAN. Flutng-Iron.

No. 219,390. Patented se V1.9,1879

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFLCE.

LEVI F. DEAN, OF NEW MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTINe-lRoNs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,390, dated September 9, 1879 application filed February 24, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, LEVI F. DEAN, of New Milford, in the county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Flnting and Smoothing Irons, of which the following is a specification.

Flirting-irons have been made with a fiuted late over which a roller is `assed the fabric being pressed into the plate by the ribs of the roller, and this plate has been heated by a slug of cast-iron or other metal, upon which the platerests. In flirting-irons, and also in smoothing-irons, there is but little difculty in heating the middle portion of the ironing-surface; but there is considerable difficulty in heating the outer portions of lsuch surface, because these outer portions or edges are the most exposed to cooling influences, and they are the farthest from the place of the greatest heat.

My improvements relate to a slug for heating, in which there is a rim for the ironing-plate to come in contact with. Thereby the heat of the ironing-surface is rendered more uniform than heretofore. I also combine with thev corrugated iiuti'ng-plate a roller and a fluted ironing-surface, so that the fabric after it is fluted can be held until dry and stiff and the surface polished.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of the luting-iron complete. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the heatingslug, and Fig. 3 is a face view of such slug. Fig. 4. is an inverted plan of the flirting-plate. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan of the fluting-roller and ironingplate, and Fig: 6 is a plan of the slug-holder.

The slug a is of the proper size and shape; but the surface that is to be in contact with the ironing-plate is not flat, but it is formed with a rim, b, so that the surface contact is only around the outer portions of the ironingplate, and there is an opening through this slug, as at c, so that the heat may act through thatopening with uniformity by radiation and atmospheric circulation within the air-chamber formed between the ironing-plate and the surface of the heater or slug. At d there is an opening for the insertion of a lifter to take the slug from the fire to the iron.

\ It will be apparent that this slug acts to render the heat uniform, whether the same rests uponthe ironing-plate, as in a box smoothing-iron, or whether the ironing-plate rest-s upon the slug, as shown in the drawings.

f is the ironing-plate, having a tinted surface on the top and pins e at the bottom, to enter recesses in the surface of the slug, so that the parts are held in their proper relative position, and there is a slight offset at t', forming a shoulder that sets within the rim b to steady the parts; and the Linder side of this plate is concave, to increase the size of the airchamber between the slug and the plate, the surface that comes into con tact with the heated slug being flat, or nearly so, and near the edges of the ironing-plate, the middle portion being concave or recessed, so as not to come directly into contact with the heated slug. This insures the most heat near the edges of the ironin g-plate.

At one end of the tluting-plate there is a mortise, g, for the insertion of a lifter to move the plate when in a heated condition.

The stand upon which the slug a restsis made as a plate, h, supported bythe feet 7c, similar to an ironing-stand, and there are lugs or lingers Zat different places around the same to prevent the slug slipping off the stand, an there are ribs or lugsat u upon the top surface of h, that raise the heated slug sufficiently to lessen the heat that is conducted to the stand 71 and to allow air to circulate around the heating-slug, as aforesaid.

The uted iron m is provided with a handle similar to a smoothin g-iron. It is preferable to provide the lifter a at one end of said nted iron, and at the other end there are the arms o o, sustaining the luting-roller s.

The tinted or corrugated surfaces correspond and are adapted to receive between them the material to be iuted. In using this fluter the fabric is to be laid upon the plate f, and the roller s passed over the same, the iron m being held in the position shown in Fig. 1 by dot-ted lines, so that the roller only is operative to crimp the fabric. Then the iron m is pressed down upon the fabric to hold the flutes or crimps between the corrugated surfaces of plate f and iron m until it is dry, or nearly so,

and thereby the material is iinished in a more perfect manner than it would be by the action of a luted roller only. The iron is furthermore to be moved across the material length- Wise of the flutes, so as to act like a Hat-iron. In cases where the material to be fluted is an insertion or gathered fabric between two plain fabrics, the portion to be fluted is to be laid upon the plate f, and the roller s run over the portion only that is to be tinted, and then the ironing operation will be performed between the iiuted plates, between the edge of the top plate, m, above the plate f, and the edge of that plate f which comes below said plate m.

l claim as my invention- 1. The iluted iron m., provided with a handle and arms, o o, in combination with the iutingroller s, sustained by such arms, and the heater and iuted plate f, substantially as set forth.

2. The heating-slug for smoothing-irons, having a rim around its heating-face, to rest against the ironing-plate and form its only surface of contact, leaving an air-chamber between the central portion of the slug and the ironing-plate, substantially as set forth.

3. An ironing-plate in which the surface that comes in contact with the heating-slug is flat, or nearly so, and is near the edges of the ironing-plate, and the middle portion of the ironing-plate is recessed, so as not to come into contact with such slug, as and for thepurposes set forth.

Signed by me this 20th LEVI F. DEAN.

day of February,

Witnesses HAROLD SERRELL, GEO. T. PINCKNEY. 

